Elimate Wasting Fruit

If your like me, you buy fruit with the best of intentions, but end up letting a lot of it go bad. Well my husband came up with a brilliant solution. Clean and wash the fruit just before it gets funky and freeze it in a zip top bag. After it is frozen, you just pop the fruit in the blender with juice or yogurt and, voila, instant smoothies. They are pretty healthy and much cheaper then buying frozen fruit. When my son has friends over it is always something they ask for. We have used every fruit imaginable, even grapes, and the smoothies turn out great. The fruit has other uses as well: they make a great pie/cobbler filling (recipe follows). The best use as far as I'm concerned though are daiquiris! After hours of having a mob of children clamoring for frozen drinks, I like one my self. Just add rum;)

Audrey's Cobbler

2c Fruit
2/3c sugar

1. Put the above in a bowl and cover with water and let soak (if you are using the frozen fruit from above, thaw in the refrigerator overnight)
2. Turn on oven to 325
3. Put 2/3 of a stick of butter in a baking dish and put it in the oven take out when the butter is melted.
4. Mix the batter (recipe below)
5. Pour batter into the baking dish
6. Spoon fruit over the batter (use only a little of the water) for sweeter cobbler make sure to get all of the sugar
7. Bake for one hour at 325

Batter Recipe

2/3c sugar

3/4c flour

2 tsp. baking powder

3/4c milk